DECEMBER 2-3, Plzen > Creative Placemaking Festival

Creative placemaking and sustainable urban development are among the most intriguing current challenges. How can designers, urban planners, architects, cultural operators, and other creative minds contribute? What role can abandoned industrial spaces play in industrial towns and cities? How can new technologies be used for cities’ development and transformation? How can new ways of engaging citizens and attracting tourists help to (re)create cities, towns, and places? Modern cultural institutions: how do they help create places and implement cultural strategies, while engaging business, art, and policy actors?

The aim of this year’s edition of the Open Up! Creative Placemaking festival is to answer these questions and discuss culture driven urban development. The event will bring together policy makers, artists, representatives of cultural institutions, architects, designers, and the general public to discuss how to use the arts and culture in order to design better cities.